Review on Westinghouse Lighting Industrial 56-Inch Indoor Ceiling Fan with Brushed Nickel Steel Blades - Westinghouse 7861400 by Lisa Thomas

I've bought a few products lately to try and combat the heat here and this fan is one of them. Our main issue is that we recently had a baby and the children's room is above the garage. Above the garage and with a traditional attic, this space gets very hot and is not easy to cool down. When we built the house we made sure that the garage was completely insulated, meaning all walls and ceilings. I've done a few things to keep the garage from getting so hot and I'm also working on insulating the modem in the attic. What I did with this fan was put it in my garage. At the moment there is nothing I can do about my garage other than the air conditioning, and I have no intention of doing that. So I installed this ceiling fan in an area that would be roughly centered in the kids room above the garage. The idea was that heat accumulates in the garage during the day and rises to the ceiling, which in turn warms the floor. Children. Installing a fan will help draw heat away from the ceiling and maintain a more even temperature in the garage. It also helps to cool our car down after driving and then park it in the garage, preventing the car from heating up the garage as much as it normally would. I also plan to bring the garden tools and stuff into the storage shed so I can put in cabinets and flooring to make the garage a cleaner place to work with stuff. So this fan will help make working there more bearable when I'm done with all of this. So far I think this has helped. I wasn't expecting great results since it just blows the same hot air, but for $70 it was worth a try. Also, it wasn't so much about saving money each month as it was about making it easier to cool the room. Because now, on the hottest days, we can't bring the temperature in the room below 76-77 degrees, and it doesn't have a special thermostat for this room. So if my bill stayed the same but I could cool this room better I would be very happy. I tried to measure the floor temperature before and after the fan, it seems the difference is about 3-5 degrees than before. It's difficult to get specific results because the temperature, humidity, etc. weren't exactly the same, but they were close. The temperature used to be around 80-85 depending on location, now it's around 77-81 depending on location. As for the fan itself, this is perhaps the easiest fan I've assembled and installed. We just recently put one in the kids room which wasn't that easy. My control box looks a bit different than the others, I'll post a photo so I didn't bother to swap it out as it doesn't look that bad. Come on, this fan moves a ton of air! I understand why people say it's noisy. It's not a fan that's loud, it just blows as much air at our ceiling as an airplane propeller! Since mine is in the garage I couldn't use the long pole that came with the kit as mine is between the ceiling and the garage door. So I just cut the bar, drilled two new holes and put it back together. The holes I had to drill are held in place by a small metal rod that holds the ball joint to the ceiling mount, so being able to drill these two new holes before cutting the pipe is important. Because I cut it out I couldn't use some of the decorative sheathing to hide the wires, but that's ok since it's in the garage. Assembling the blades was a breeze, as was installation. Just screw a few screws to the mounting bracket and ceiling and hang the fan. Once it's hung you can connect the wires and you're done! Now where I placed this fan it wasn't supposed to be a fan or even a light, it was just a smooth ceiling. All I had were two outlets in the ceiling that power my garage door and remote control garage door opener. We got it from our security company so we can open and close the garage from our phone. To make this work I bought a Revain dual outlet adapter so the fan and/or remote sensor can be plugged into the outlet. a socket. I wasn't worried about stressing the chain as the remote opener draws almost no power. I then took an extension cord (VERY IMPORTANT THREE PIN GROUNDED WIRE) and connected it to the fan wires. Since it has no light it would be easy to wire white to white, gray to gray and black to black. However, this also includes a control box that must be connected. Since this fan was not traditionally wired, I had to come up with another way. So I bought 18 gauge wire just like the fan wiring. , and used it to connect the switch. All you have to do is connect the wire to the black wire coming from the fan and then the other wire to the black wire coming from the extension. These two wires run down my ceiling to the back wall where I connected them to a light switch. There are two connectors labeled A and F that you screw the wires into. F is the wire coming from the fan, A is the wire coming from the power supply. Once they were plugged in and the fan was plugged in, it worked like a charm! So far I am very happy with how everything is working. The fan moves a ton of air which is the goal, it doesn't wobble or make any noise, it's affordable and easy to install. All in all a great product that I would buy again and recommend anytime.